Table for setting out leather.



J. T. SMITH. TABLE POE SETTING OUT LEATHER. APPLICATION FILED JULY15, 1910.

1,003,529. Patented Sept. 19,1911,

WiTNESSES INVENTOR ATTO NEY.

UNITED sTA'rngygENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. SMITH, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

TABLE FOR sn'r'rme our LEATHER.

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"To all whom it may concern:

Be it knowirthat 1, JAMES '1. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Esseit and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Tables for Setting Out Leather, of which the following is a'specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a suitable and convenient table for setting; out leather according to the method set forth in my prior application Serial No. 512,312, filed August 11, 1909; to enable the workmen to work at said table from either side of the same; to this end to provide a table which can be tilted upon a median horizontal axis; to enable the table." to be locked in any desired angular positioni to avoid bringing the setting-out, board with the leather applied thereto into such positions, when off the table, that gravity will tend to separate them; to thus reduce to a minimum the tendency of the leather to separate from the setting out board while wet and heavy, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of tlieseveral figures, lf igure 1 is a side elevation of my improved table with a setting-out board and piece of leather thereon, looking at the edge of the table away from the operators during, the first part of the settingpout operation; Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, Fig. 3 is a cross section of the table and setting-out board, taken on line AA of Fig. 1,- looking in the direction indicated by the arrow, showing in dotted lines the setting-outboard removed from the table at the end of the first part of the operation, and in full lines the table with said settingout board placed back upon it for the last part of the operation, and Fig. l shows the table, still in section on line A- A of Fig. v1, restored to inclined position for setting-out the second hall? of the piece of leather.

ln said drawing, 1 indicates a table top providing a hard, smooth upper surface 2 upon which the setting-out board 3 can be laid ilatwise either with a piece of leather set out. upon itself or without. Said table top 1 I have shown secured in fixed position upon a beam which extends longitudinally Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 15, 1910.

the length of the table renders necessary Patented Sept. 19,1911. Serial No. 572,104.

along the middle of the table. Posts 5 pro ect downward from the under side of said beam 4, and from opposite sides of the lower endof each of these posts braces i), 3 extend upwardly to the opposite outer edges of the table top 1. Obviously there can be as many sets of posts 5 and braces ti, 6 as to rigidly and firmly support the table top. It I should be noted that said posts 5 and braces G, (5 do not reach to the floor, however".

-The ends of the beam 4: are rounded, as at 7, to form trunnions, and are journaled in bearings 8 provided at the upper parts of standards it of any suitable and stable construction. Said bearings 8 are provided with capslO bolted thereto, as at 11. The table is thus adapted to rock upon the trunnioiis 7, 7 to bring the table top 1 into any angular position desired. Suitable means are t'urtlu'zrinore provided for locking the table in ditl'erent angular positions, those shown in the drawing consisting of a collar 12 upon ,each of the trunnions 7, 7 outside of the bearings 8, 8, said collar being keyed to the trunnions, as at 13. Said collar has a peripheral series of radially disposed sockets 14, and a pin 15 extending through a seat or aperture in an arm 16 projecting from the cap 10 out over said collar 12 is adapted to be inserted into any one of said series of sockets 11 to hold the table against turning. Preferably there are two of these locking means, one at each end of the table, so as to secure said table firmly in a desired position. Other suitable means adapted to the purpose could be employcdfor holding the table against rocking or tipping, and the table could be supported in other ways equivalent to the one shown, without-departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. The detail construction of the I table itself could also be varied as i'nechanical skill might suggest, so long as there is provided a flat top 2 which can be tipped into dittcrent angular positions.

The table top 2 preferably, has adjacent to each of its long side edges sockets 17, 17 and 1.8, 18 adapted to receive pins 19, 19. Each pair of these sockets is placed at such a distance from the ncarjedge ofthe table top that the setting-out board 3 resting atone of its edges against the pins 18in said sockets will be substantially flush at its other edge with the tar edge of the table.

i board 3 islaid upon the table top at its edge away from'the operators against the pins 19. The first half 20 of the piece of leather '21 is then brought upon the setting-out board hand set-out and stretched thereon according to the method set forth in my said prior application SerialNo. 512,312,-filed Aug. 11, 1909,- or the modification thereof described in my application Ser. No. 538,068,

- out of the first half of the leather plcted, the setting-out board 3 with the leather thereupon is slid ofi of the table,

tiled January 18 1910. When the settingis compreferably by-the two men taking hold of said board at its'opp'osite ends, and is held in horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 3' of the drawing, while theta'ble is tipped in the same direction until its top 1 is substantially rertieal, asshown in said Fig. 3. The pins 10 are then changed from the holes or seekets 1T, 17 to the sockets 18, 18 atthe lower edge of the table top, and the near edge of at the commencement of 'the setting-outboard or edgenext the table being broughtto restnpon said pins 19, said settiii'g-out board 1s, tilted into vertical position so that its slde'having the'halt 9.0 of

the leather thereon rests fiatwise against the table top, whereupon the other half of the piece of leather falls against the opp0- site side of the setting-out board, all as clearly shown in. Fig. 3 of the drawing. Thetable is then tiltedor swung into thesame angular relation to the horizontal as itwas the operation, eX-.

.c'epttllat the edge whichwas lowest then is highest now and the operators work fronr the opposite side of the table from that which they did in setting-out the first half 20 of the piece of leather. \Vhen the workmen have finished setting-out said second half 22 of the piece of leather, the table is again tippedinto vertical position, as shown 'in Fig. 3, and with one man at each end the setting-out board with the leather set-out 'thereu jion is liftcdotl', and still being kept in vertical edgewise position is carried away for drying or subsequent operations.

The process of "setting out leather, in

which. the table forming the subject of this application is employed, is set forth and bearings for said trunuions, means for locking said table in different angular positions,- and stops adapted to project upward -from said flat upper surface of the table top and to be removed therefrom.

'lhe hereindescribcd table for setting out leather, comprising a top presenting a fiat upper surface, means for pivotally supporting said top along the longitudinal median line thereof, and stops projecting from said upper flatsurfaccof the table top adapted to be shifted thereon.

3(Thc hereindescribed table for setting out leather, comprising a top presenting a fiat upper surface with sockets therein adj scent to each side edge;-means for pivotally supporting said table top along the longitudinal -median line thereof, and stops adapted to'bc inserted in said sockets.

The hereindcscribed table for settingout leather, comprising a top presenting a Hat upper surface, means ior supporting said table top so that its said flat upper surface can be brought into substantially vertial plane and inclined in either direction to the lwrizontal, and stops projecting from said fiat 'uppeu'surface near one side edge of the table top.

The hereindescribedtable for setting out leather, comprising a top presenting a fiat upper surface, means for pivotally supporting. said top along'the longitudinal median line thereof, means for holding said table top against tipping incertain angular.

positions, and removable stops adapted to be stationed on said table top at either longitudinal margin thereof and project upward from the plane of the flat upper surface of said top.

JAMES T. SMITH.

In the presence of RUSSELL M. EVERETT, FnANcns'E. BLonsE'rr. 

